CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FEATURED AUTHOR: DENISE GIARDINA

Candy
A Mountaintop Experience
Mourning in the Mountains

FICTION

Robert Gipe
Gone to Water

Elizabeth Genovise
The Fullback 

Elaine Fowler Palencia
Dark Stars 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Darius Stewart
Seeing Pink Elephants

Sadie Shorr-Parks
Chasing Bread 

POETRY

Ida Stewart
Surface Mine

Radish
From “The Tide Pools” 

Ron Houchin
Gospel River

Pissing Initials on Snow
Talking to Shadows
The Matter of Words

Jess Quinlan
Green Heron

New Virginia

Katherine Smith
The Memorial

Samantha DeFlitch
Pittsburgh

Jenn Blair
False Baptism

Sosha Pinson
Grandpa Jimmy’s Lessons

Frederick Wilbur
A Definition of Dominion

Br. Paul Quenon
Winter Night Solstice 

INTERVIEW

Denise Giardina by Jason Kyle Howard

CRAFT ESSAY

Charles Green
Made Out of Words

BOOK REVIEWS

Jayne Moore Waldrop
Utopia Drive by Erik Reece